More Disco

Just when you thought it was safe to venture into the dance section we find a few more of these gems! This book is more straight up dance instruction and if you can get past the dated pictures, it might be a keeper. I just wonder though if dance instruction is really served by a book these days. When talking about dance instruction I have had people ask for video/DVD rather than books. Maybe it isn’t content, it is format that really is the issue.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, the #1 dance instruction book check out we have at our branch is a book on disco dancing. So popular we’re going to get disco dancing instruction dvds next. People actually do want to learn to disco dance. (I know I really want to learn to do The Hustle.) Mostly for weddings, it seems, but also for excercise purposes. It seems to be more popular then even the belly dancing for excercise DVDs.

And I’ll never get the hate on disco music. In those pre-autotune days the singers actually had to be able to sing. Really, who would you rather listen to? Donna Summer or Rebecca Black?

Though I have to say, the book we have at our branch is superior to this one. So if you want to weed it and give it to me…. *winks*

I think that with things like dance instruction people can always consult YouTube so I definately see instruction dvds or video being more useful than a book. Personally I can’t follow along with something like dance if I read about it as well as if I had some visuals to go along with it.

@L.B.- I know! That song is going to be stuck in my head for days now.
@Jami- I don’t really have anything against disco, but I wouldn’t write off everything that has come since then. If nothing else, you should check out Cake’s cover of “I Will Survive”. It’s on youtube. 🙂